Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-20
EVENTS OFT WEEK.
Domestic News

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Domestic News
The rains which came on the 9th and 10th,
mitgated to some extent the exceeding
drouth that was existing in Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa and Illinois and quenched
many forest and prairie fires The damage
done by the tires and the drying up of pas
lures and destroying crops, amounts in the
aggregate to vast sum and the coming
winter forbodes restitution and suffering in
many sections. The scarcity of water has
been q painful feature of the situation and
the distress Of cattle has been very great.
At some places water sold readily at cents
pail. For the present, at least, the worst
has passed.
A telegram from Butte, Mont, says it is
now certain that the losses among cattle
last winter by storms and severe weather
were much greater than the large estimates
given at the time admitted. The ranges
have been thoroughly traversed and cattle
men admit losses will in no case be less than
50 per cent, while in many instances they
will run as high as rs. The calf crop was
unusually light. One firm which branded
50O last year found that many hundreds
were drowned by seeking holes in the ice
for water and bodies were swept away by
subsequent floods.
A dispatch from Columbia, South Caro-
lima, says that full one half the rice crop of
the state has been lost by the freshets of the
last ten days. Thousands of acres on the
Carolina side of the Carolina river are al
most totally destroyed, some of the land
being under water for the third this season;
the same is true on the Savannah and
Ogeechee rivers and the great fields on the
Altamaha are threatened but not yet lost.
The Phenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn, N. Y, capital Sl,OOO,Oo0 has
been required by the State Superintendent
of Insurance to call on its stockholders to
make good an impairment of its capital
amounting to S500,0O or reduce its capital
stock from 81 ,000, 600 to 100000, and the
company decides to reduce its capital stock
by one-half.
The imports of dry goods at the port of
New York last week amounted to s2,598, 339,
of which S1,852,S 1913 were entered for con
sumption and $745,496 were warehoused
The amount withdrawn from warehouses
for the week was S6A, 167, making the total
amount thrown on the market so, 4SO,OlO.
Negroes of Desha county, Arkansas, are
much excited because DR.. Harrison, a col
ored, voodoo doctor. has been convicted of
numbering one of his patients through the
administration of poison. He has been sem
fenced to term in prison for manslaughter,
but is likely to be lynched.
Indignant citizens of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
caused the arrest of the Mayor of the city
and the 10 council men for neglect of all
sanitary provisions for the health and
cleanliness of the city, the whole town being
infected with mass Of filth unprecedented
and unbearable.
Ohio still remains an October State, as to
election of State officers in off years, when
there are no congressman to elect. The
Republicans open their state campaign at
Caldwell, Sept Z, with Gov. Foraker.
A daily stage line is now in operation
between Thompson's Falls, Mont, a station
on the Northern Pacific, to Murray, Idaho.
passing through the Occur d. Alene mining
district.
Bad blood exists in San Francisco be
tween the Austrians and Scandinavians,
and at a picnic it was necessary to have
police protection for the Austrian flag.
The First National Bank Of Heppner, Ore,
capital $4,000, and the First National Bank
of Madison, Neb., capital S5O,OOO, have been
authorized to commence business.
Prof. King successfully crossed the
Niagara river on water bicycle, this week.
The Rocky Mountain locust is destroying
crops in the Northwest Territory.
Crimes.
Mrs Harvey Willis, of Oswego, N. Y,
beat her mother, Mrs. Rawlinson, SO badly
that she died.
At Chicago on Thursday, County Com
missioner Klehm, the informer, who plead
guilty was fined 81 ,OOO the States attorney
asking for him the clemency of the court.
At Charleston, W. Va. on the 9th
Charles Williams, who was confined in jail
for the murder Of James Aldridge a few
days before was taken from jail by citizens
and hanged to atree.
Jake Sharp, is said to be dying in the Lud-
low Street Jail in New York He is unable
to move, and is in state of semi conscious
ness most of the time. When he is con
scious his moaning can be heard beyond the
prison walls. Every bone in his body
aches.
A bloody fight took place on the 10th, at
Cape Charles in the lower part of the
eastern shore of Virginia between sailors
from fishing fleet and citizens, the former
being intoxicated. Five men were killed Of
the fishing party, land several wounded who
We're carried off to the fishing feet.
Frank M. Langston, son of exMinister
Langston, who has been on trial for killing
a man in Petersburg, Va, few weeks
since, has been convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
eight years. Langston's respectable con-
nections and the worthless character of the
negro he killed probably saved his neck
from the halter.
On the return trip of the steamer Alaska
from Put-in-bay to Detroit, Mich, Thursday
night gang of toughs took possession of
the boat assaulting men, insulting women
and robblng passengers without any pre-
tense OF concealment. Three passengers
were badly pounded, and the crew and the
passengers were so terrOrized no resistance
was offered. On arrival at Detroit, two
patrol wagons were called and IL arrests
made
The west.bound passenger train on the
Southern Pacific was run off switch near
Papago, about fifteen miles east Of Tucson.
Ariz., Thursday night by four masked men.
The engine was ditched and the express car
robbed of about $500. The robbery oc-
CURED atthe same point where the west
bound express was robbed in April last The
robbers were cool and bold and armed with
Winchester rifles and pistols and did q good
deal of firing to intimidate passengers and
train men. IS
At Mexico, Missouri, Ann Brettster, col
ored, left her two children, aged five years
and ten months respectively, in an 8xS
room closely shut up while she went to a
.nelghbor's house to spend the night. At
night when the room was opened horrible
sight presented itself. The elder child was
almost suffocated and the baby was in the
throes of death. A portion of the flesh Of
the breast and stomach had been eaten
away by the elder child, who was almost